Question

I have a problem with some files in linux (Ubuntu) terminal, with accents in the names. For example:

$ ls dir/
criação.png 

So, the terminal returns that file, so it exists. Now lets look if the file exists, with this simple command:

$ [ -f criação.png ] &&  echo "File Exist" || echo "Not Exist"
Not Exist

As you can see, “Not Exist”. Now, i have the same folder and file on OSX, then I run the same command and it returns this:

$ [ -f criação.png ] &&  echo "File Exist" || echo "Not Exist"
File Exist

I know a little about locale:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" 
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

On linux, “Not Exist”, on OSX, “File Exist”… Someone, know how to fix that?

Maybe these can help:
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201106/filenames_with_accents.html
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/279105

UPDATE – Solution

I finally found a solution to that problem. You need to rename your files from NFD to NFC, here is the command to fix all files:

cd dir/
convmv -r -i -f utf8 -t utf8 --nfc --notest .

Source: http://blog.hbis.fr/2010/08/30/macox-utf8_filenames_normalization/

Answer 1

One of the reasons might be the file name uses a different unicode normalization form of characters with combining marks than you use to type the name. See Unicode Equivalence.